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    "id": 554446,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/554446/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Midiwo",
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        "legal_name": "Washington Jakoyo Midiwo",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker. I rise to support the debate on this Bill. Thank you for your guidance on the role of the Supplementary Appropriation Bill or the Appropriations Bill. As I support this Bill, we give these monies willingly and it is the responsibility of the National Assembly - I say that with emphasis because of the debate we shall be having probably this afternoon about the confusion being created--- Really, there is no confusion, but there is an attempt to create confusion about the powers of this House in Budget making. That confusion is intended to incapacitate the Constitution itself because the role of the Senate and the role of this House are very clear. I wonder where the imagination that the Senate needs to talk about monies which have not been appropriated by this House to go to the counties is coming from. I am defeated where that imagination is coming from because I sat in the Bomas of Kenya. I sat throughout the making of the new Constitution. If we revisit the HANSARD of those debates, we will find that the role of the Senate, if any, in this process is just as it is stipulated in the current Constitution."
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